Gateway 2000 started tanking the same time it ditched its iconic Holstein spotted branding.
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Gateway 2000 started tanking the same time it ditched its iconic Holstein spotted branding.

I've been putting together a history of Gateway 2000's bonkers ads and learned that

  1. Over 50% of the company's business came from repeat customers
  2. Ted Waitt hired former Sioux City mayor Jim Wharton to be his personal assistant
  3. A Shenzhen-based company (Bmorn Technology) has resurrected the spotted box branding to sell "Gateway" laptops through Walmart.com

Bring back the HandBook 486!

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u/RyNotThai — 2 days ago

You could plug this absolute unit into a VCR and back up to videotape, apparently

“The Mirror interface would back up the drive to videotape. If you had a fancy Panasonic VCR, you could control it via the backup software. Took about 30 minutes to back up the full 10 mb," according to a former Corvus employee.

u/RyNotThai — 2 months ago

Thailand's GFN provider (Bro.game) is unusable.

I signed up today, and it took me over half an hour just to create an account and pay. The site kept just randomly reloading and leading to a 404 while I was in the middle of signing up for the Performance tier. I powered through.

I know the queue is bad on weekends at primetime, but multiple times my queue number actually *increased*, which was the first time I decided not to renew at the end of the month. But I powered through for the time being, just out of curiosity.

I got as low ast queue number 185 (started at 300, waited about 1hr 45min) and then it just randomly jumped to a loading screen...that immediately froze. I let it sit for somewhere between 5-10 minutes, and then it just said "Looks like you don't own this game through Steam yet." The very next screen was the game (Portal 2) with a little tag that said "Owned".

Zero patience left, I went to see if I could ask for a refund. The Bro.game website says "We do not offer refunds in any case." Cool! Wanting to be sure that they can never charge me again for their totally unusable service, I tried to cancel. But alas I can't. Zero mention of canceling in their documentation and it's nowhere in my account, profile, or billing settings. All I can do is remove my payment method. While searching for the cancellation form, I did find that my monthly playtime had been deducted 9 minutes. For the frozen Loading screen I guess?

So, yea, I do not recommend giving Bro.game your money.

u/RyNotThai — 3 months ago